[NSRCA-dist7] FAI in D7

[Matthew Kimbro]

Hey Guys,

I agree with Tony.  Not flying "F" will only hurt the contests.  Everyone
in FAI wants to fly "F" and everyone else wants to see it flown.  The only
thing I would like to see is 3 of 4 "P" counted and 1 of 2 "F" counted and
each contest.

Instead of changing FAI, we need to figure out a way to fix the Master
class.

Matt Kimbro

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Anthony Frackowiak <frackowiak at sbcglobal.net
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have felt before and I still feel that F3A Pilots should be prepared to
> fly both. If not, fly Masters. As a CD I am totally against creating
> classes in this District that are not also National. So I am completely
> against this idea of a "silver" and "gold' F3A classes. There are other
> ways to handle the overload of Masters if that is indeed what happens. I
> also feel that our District Championships in F3A should include Unknown
> rounds. How in the world does an F3A pilot prepare to fly Unknowns with no
> competitions including them?
>
> As to the drop off in F3A pilots, I went back and looked at who was flying
> in 2009, 2010 and 2011. I think that the drop in F3A competitors are for a
> lot of other reasons then just having to fly both patterns.
>
> I agree with much of what Chris said. The real problem is not F3A or
> Masters. It's Sportsman and Intermediate. If pattern and hence the NSRCA
> does not start to try to do something to increase the interest in flying
> pattern, it really doesn't matter. We are a dying event. Making Advanced
> and Masters more difficult is also not a solution. I'm starting to help
> Jean Greear work on Intermediate. That in itself is a huge jump from
> Sportsman. What will making Advanced more difficult do to someone in
> Intermediate?
>
> The problem that I see in a very big way lately is that the powers to be
> who are controlling the event, and by that I mean the NSRCA and the Contest
> Board, are set in their ways and are apparently happy with the status quo.
> Any significant change that could really help participation in pattern gets
> shot down very quickly. Until this changes we need to just be ready for
> more of the same.
>
> BTW, I have been flying P-13 and starting to work on F-13. P-13 is  a much
> better pattern then P-11 but it is definitely more difficult then the
> current Masters pattern. F-13 is crazy hard. It will take a big commitment
> to fly F-13 well. But if a current F3A pilot or someone thinking of flying
> F3A can't handle it, then work to get that event changed or fly an AMA
> class.
>
> Tony Frackowiak
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